Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery

Higher preoperative hemoglobin levels are associated with higher mortality in both men and women after CABG, whereas patients with lower limits of normal hemoglobin levels were at greater risk compared with mid‐normal values, data show.

Radial artery graft for the second most important coronary target was associated with lower 15-year all-cause mortality vs. right internal thoracic artery or saphenous vein graft for CABG, researchers reported.

Women remain at significantly higher risk than men for adverse outcomes after coronary artery bypass grafting with no substantial improvements observed in the last decade, according to a retrospective cohort study published in JAMA Surgery.

In a real-world cohort of Medicare beneficiaries with ACS and multivessel CAD, CABG conferred lower odds of mortality, readmission and repeat procedures compared with PCI, researchers reported.

Among adults with hypertension who underwent CABG, five machine learning models using patient characteristics each demonstrated acceptable predictive ability for 1-year mortality risk, data from a single-center study show.

N-acetylcysteine, an antioxidant supplement, administered with carvedilol did not prevent postoperative atrial fibrillation in patients who underwent CABG compared with carvedilol alone, data from a single-center study show.

Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics, held Sept. 16 to 19 in Boston, featured the latest clinical science in interventional cardiology, as well as forums on innovative technologies, regulatory matters and other topics.

Healio and Cardiology Today have compiled a list of the most-read news in CV intervention from TCT 2022.

Effect of 4% albumin solution vs. Ringer’s acetate as priming solution in CABG.

BOSTON — Addition of fractional flow reserve to the classic SYNTAX score enabled researchers to identify patients with multivessel CAD undergoing PCI who would have similar 1-year outcomes as those who received CABG, a speaker reported.